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Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy

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Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy - Fossen, Thomas
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Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so? In Facing Authority , Thomas Fossen develops a new philosophical approach to political legitimacy, interweaving analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with examples of real-life struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, ...

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Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy 2023, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197645703

Hardcover